Monday, September 06, 2004

With apologies to Bill Simmons...

...because I don't have time for a full-fledged entry, just a few random thoughs:


-Mark Bellhorn, the man everyone loves to violently underestimate, is the leader among AL second basemen in OPS. Baseball-wide, he's third overall.

-Spending a week with a wonderful, generous, kind family, all of which are rabid Yankees fans and staunch Republicans, is a test to try one's soul. Especially when one of them is your girlfriend. More on that later, I promise.

-David Ortiz isn't the mirror image of Manny Ramirez. It's more accurate to say that he's Manny reflected in a funhouse mirror--all the parts work the same, but the head's a little bigger, the teeth have a gap, and besides, the whole thing's backwards.

-Watching for updates on the ESPN ticker is incredibly difficult, especially when they insist on cutting to commercial right before starting the AL scores. I feel like it's 1920 all over again, and late-breaking updates are transferred by telegraph.

-I need to start looking for tickets to a Cubs game before I go back to school. Any suggestions for things to shout at Nomar?

-Kevin Brown getting injured? Not surprising. Kevin Brown getting injured by punching a clubhouse wall like a bloody little leaguer?

Awesome.